System Design Checklist

Introduction

• System Design Interviews
• Introduction
• Abstractions
• Non-functional system characteristics
• Back-of-the-envelope calculations

Building Blocks

• Introduction
• DNS
• Load balancers
• Databases
• Key-value store
• CDN
• Sequencer
• Distributed monitoring
• Monitoring server-side errors
• Monitoring client-side errors
• Distributed cache
• Distributed messaging queue
• Pub-sub system
• Rate limiter
• Blob store
• Distributed search
• Distributed logging
• Distributed task scheduler
• Sharded counters
• Concluding building blocks

Design Problems

• Design YouTube
• Design Quora
• Design Google Maps
• Design Yelp
• Design Uber
• Design Twitter
• Design Newsfeed system
• Design Instagram
• Design TinyURL
• Design Web crawler
• Design WhatsApp
• Design Typeahead
• Design Google Docs

Epilogue

• Spectacular failures
• Concluding remarks